Recent New Books, Audios, Music, & Films
The following is a listing of new titles purchased by the Oldham County Public Library system during the month listed.
See also "Booking Ahead" for a list of books that have recently been ordered.
March 2010
NEW ADULT FICTION
CHIC LIT/WOMEN’S FICTION
Keyes, Marian, The Brightest Star in the Sky
DOMESTIC FICTION
Bishop, George, Letter to my Daughter
Erdrich, Louise, Shadow Tag
Greene, Amy, Bloodroot
Greenwood, Tammy, The Hungry Season
Henkin, Joshua, Matrimony
Hoffman, Beth, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Jamison, Leslie, The Gin Closet
Michaels, Fern, Vanishing Act
Nguyen, Bich Minh, Short Girls
Olsson, Linda, Astrid & Veronika
Steel, Danielle, Big Girl
Trigiani, Adriana, Brava, Valentine
FANTASY (SCIENCE FICTION)
Baxter, Stephen, Flood
Bova, Ben, Able One
Greenwood, Ed, Falconfar
Kenyon, Kay, Prince of Storms
Sheehan, Jacqueline, Now & Then
HISTORICAL FICTION
Blake, Sarah, The Postmistress
Buchanan, Cathy Marie, The Day the Falls Stood Still
Conde, Maryse, Victoire: My Mother’s Mother
DeLillo, Don, Point Omega
Echlin, Kim, The Disappeared
Gear, W. Michael, Coming of the Storm
Harris, Robert, Conspirata: a novel of Ancient Rome
Kalogridis, Jeanne, The Devil’s Queen: a novel of Catherine de Medici
Mason, Zachary, The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Meacham, Leila, Roses
Mills, Mark, The information Officer
Pietroni, Anna Lawrence, Ruby’s Spoon
Simmons, Dan, Black Hills
INSPIRATIONAL FICTION
Peterson, Tracie, Bells of Lowell
Wiseman, Beth, Plain Promise: a Daughters of the Promise novel
KENTUCKY FICTION
Bingham, Sallie, Matron of Honor
Callahan, Tim, The Cave, the Cabin & the Tattoo Man
Callahan, Tim, Coty & the Wolf Pack
Callahan, Tim, Dark Days in Morgan County
MYSTERY
Atherton, Nancy, Aunt Dimity Down Under
Black, Cara, Murder in the Palais Royal
Childs, Laura, The Teaberry Strangler
Fluke, Joanne, Apple Turnover Murder
Graves, Sarah, Crawlspace: a Home Repair is Homicide mystery
Herring, Peg, Her Highness’ First Murder: a Simon & Elizabeth mystery
Hime, James, Where Armadillos go to Die
Hobbet, Anastasia, Small Kingdoms
Lustbader, Eric, Last Snow
Mankell, Henning, The Man from Beijing
McMahon, Katharine, The Crimson Rooms
Parker, Robert B., Split Image
Stabenow, Dana, A Night too Dark
PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION
Lansens, Lori, The Wife’s Tale
ROMANCE (ROMANTIC SUSPENSE)
Boyle, Elizabeth, How I met my Countess
Collins, Jackie, Poor Little Bitch Girl
Drake, Shannon, Emerald Embrace
Johnston, Joan, Shattered: a Bitter Creek novel
THRILLERS
Berenson, Alex, The Midnight House
Green, Tim, False Convictions
Hamilton, Steve, The Lock Artist
Harrison, Kim, A Fistful of Charms
Harrison, Kim, Black Magic
Hill, Joe, Horns
Lawson, Michael, House Secrets
Little, Bentley, His Father’s Son
MacDonald, Patricia, From Cradle to Grave
Matheson, Richard, I am Legend
Oates, Joyce Carol, A Fair Maiden
Palmer, Michael, The Last Surgeon
Porter, Henry, The Bell Ringers
Reilly, Matthew, The 5 Greatest Warriors
Robb, J.D., Fantasy in Death
Straub, Peter, A Dark Matter
Adult Fiction in LARGE Print Format
FICTION
Bohjalian, Christopher, Secrets of Eden
Brennan, Allison, Original Sin
Brown, Dale, Plan of Attack
Harris, Robert, Conspirata: a novel of Ancient Rome
Hooper, Kay, Blood Ties: a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit
Mankell, Henning, The Man from Beijing
Martin, Kat, Royal’s Bride
McInerny, Ralph, Stained Glass: a Father Dowling mystery
Steel, Danielle, Big Girl
Straub, Peter, A Dark Matter
NON-FICTION
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the race of a lifetime / Heilemann
NEW ADULT NON-FICTION
AFRICIAN AMERICAN
Morning haiku / Sanchez
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Skloot
BIOGRAPHY
American original: the life and constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
/ Joan Biskupic
Baby, let’s play house: Elvis Presley and the women who loved him / Alanna Nash
Good Day! : the Paul Harvey story / Paul J. Batura
Literary life: a second memoir / Larry McMurtry
Pulitzer: a life in politics, print, and power / James McGrath Morris
The glass castle: a memoir / Jeannette Walls
Tupac Shakur: the life and times of an American icon / Tayannah Lee McQuillar
Willie Mays: the life, the legend / James S. Hirsch
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
1,001 things they won’t tell you: an insider’s guide to spending, saving, and living
wisely / Dahl
Can they do that? : retaking our fundamental rights in the workplace / Maltby
How to start a home-based catering business / Vivaldo
It’s not as bad as you think: why capitalism trumps fear and the economy will
thrive / Wesbury
Louder than words: take your career from average to exceptional with the hidden poser of nonverbal intelligence / Navarro
Money 911: your most pressing money questions answered, your money emergencies
solved / Chatzky
Save big: cut your top 5 costs and save thousands / Leamy
COMPUTERS
Netbooks for dummies / McNamara
Netbooks: the missing manual / Biersdorfer
PC for dummies, Windows 7 edition / Gookin
Switching to Microsoft Windows 7: the painless way to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista / Tymes
Windows 7 / Kotecha
CONSUMER HEALTH & FITNESS
Bringing down high blood pressure / Rhoden
Change your brain, change your body: use your brain to get and keep the body you have always wanted / Amen
Food rules: an eater’s manual / Pollan
The menopause makeover: the ultimate guide to taking control of your health and beauty during menopause / Jonekos
Understanding Parkinson’s disease: a self-help guide / Cram
COOKERY
All cakes considered: a year’s worth of weekly recipes tested, tasted, and approved by the staff of NPR’s All things considered / Gray
Gourmet today: more than 1000 all-new recipes for the contemporary kitchen / Reichl
The $5 dinner mom cookbook: 200 recipes for quick, delicious, and nourishing meals that are easy on the budget and a snap to prepare / Chase
The essential tea companion: favorite menus for tea parties and celebrations / Waller
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Carry me: 30 boutique bags to sew / Koshizen
ENVIRONMENT
Energy independence: your everyday guide to reducing fuel consumption / Woodside
FAMILY/PARENTING
25,001 best baby names / Bolton
Child care today: getting it right for everyone / Leach
Making toast: a family story / Rosenblatt
Nursing homes and assisted living: the family’s guide to making decisions and getting good care / Silin
HISTORY
A gambling man: Charles II’s Restoration game / Uglow
Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities / Cartledge
Citizens of London: the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest
hour / Olson
Game change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the race of a
lifetime / Heilemann
Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s Queen / Liliuokalani
Hell to pay: Operation Downfall and the invasion of Japan, 1945-47 / Giangreco
The history of the medieval world: from the conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade / Bauer
The majestic twelve: the true story of the most feared combat escort unit in
Baghdad / Lynch
The politician: an insider’s account of John Edward’s pursuit of the presidency and the scandal that brought him down / Young
Valley of Death: the tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that led America into the Vietnam
War / Morgan
KENTUCKY
Leavings: poems / Berry
Northern Kentucky’s Dixie Highway / Kremer
Our fellow Kentuckians: rascals, heroes and just plain uncommon folk / Claypool
LITERATURE
Yours ever: people and their letters / Mallon
MUSIC
When giants walked the earth: a biography of Led Zeppelin / Mack
NATURE
On thin ice: the changing world of the polar bear / Ellis
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
Censorship / Barbour
The fashion industry / Espejo
Global Warming / Haugen
Globalization / Mach
PSYCHOLOGY
Act like a lady, think like a man: what men really think about love, relationships, intimacy, and commitment / Harvey
RELIGION
An end to Al Qaeda: destroying Bin Laden’s jihad and restoring America’s honor / Nance
Patience with God: faith for people who don’t like religion (or atheism) / Schaeffer
So long, insecurity: you’ve been a bad friend to us / Moore
The faith instinct: how religion evolved and why it endures / Wade
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
100 most important science ideas: key concepts in genetics, physics, and mathematics / Henderson
Evidence of the afterlife: the science of near-death experiences / Long
Prehistoric life / Palmer
The book of codes: understanding the world of hidden messages: an illustrated guide to signs, symbols, ciphers, and secret languages / Lunde
The department of mad scientists: how DARPA is remaking our world, from the internet to artificial limbs / Belfiore
The poisoner’s handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York / Blum
SELF HELP/LIFE SKILLS
Buy ketchup in May and fly at noon: a guide to the best time to do this, buy that and go there / Di Vincenzo
The coupon mom’s guide to cutting your grocery bills in half: strategic shopping method proven to slash food and drugstore costs / Nelson
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Do one nice thing: little things you can do to make the world a lot nicer / Tenzer
The power of half: one family’s decision to stop taking and start giving back / Salwen
SPANISH LANGUAGE
Mujeres de la Biblia…ligeramente malas: Muferes imperfectas amadas por un Dios perfecto / Higgs
SPORTS & RECREATION
Knives 2010 / Kertzman
Lucha loco: the free wrestlers of Mexico / Venville
TRAVEL
National Geographic Traveler: Germany
National Geographic Traveler: Mexico
FILMS
ADULT
Amelia
Bright Star
Couples Retreat
Love Happens
Madea goes to Jail
Meet the Browns
Smallville, complete season eight, Disc 1-6
Storm
Thirtysomething, the complete second season, Disc 1-5
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Whip It
Zombieland
Wild Ocean
FAMILY
Aliens in the Attic
The Backyardigans, Join the Adventurer’s Club
The Berenstain Bears, Halloween
Bob the Builder, the best of Bob the Builder
Care Bears, Helping Hearts
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Dora the Explorer, Let’s Explore! Dora’s Greatest Adventures
Fraggle Rock: the animated series: the complete series
Handy Manny, Motorcycle Adventures
Matilda and the New Adventures of Pipi Longstocking, double feature
Max & Ruby, Playtime with Max & Ruby
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Choo-choo Express
Scooby Doo, Scooby’s All Star Laff-a-lympics, vol. 1
Sid the Science Kid, Feeling Food Inside and Out
Thomas & Friends, Splish, Splash, Splosh!
Winnie the Pooh, Seasons of Giving
Wordworld, Boppin’ with the Bug Band
Wordworld, Rocket to the Moon
SPOKEN WORD BOOKS
FICTION (cds)
Bohjalian, Christopher, Secrets of Eden
Deveraux, Jude, Days of Gold
Dunne, Dominick, Too Much Money
Greene, Amy, Bloodroot
Henry, Sue, The End of the Road: a Maxie and Stretch mystery
Hoffman, Beth, Saving CeeCee Honeycut
Meacham, Leila, Roses
Smith, Alexander McCall, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Straub, Peter, A Dark Matter
Trigiani, Adriana, Brava, Valentine
NON-FICTION (cds)
Churchill / Johnson
Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day / Ackerman
Martin Luther King Jr.: essential box set: the landmark speeches and sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / King
The last train from Hiroshima: the survivors look back / Pellegrino
Why men want sex and women need love: unraveling the simple truth / Pease